ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least five people were killed and three injured in a border clash between Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to local media reports. The Afghan Defense Ministry confirmed the clash in a statement posted on X, claiming that its forces conducted attacks inside Pakistani territory targeting “miscreants’ hideouts.&...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for improved relations with Afghanistan and urged Kabul to take action against violent elements living on their soil. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting, Premier Sharif said the Afghan interim government should take practical actions to eliminate militant hideouts on its s...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – More than a dozen soldiers have been killed in multiple attacks on a military base in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, said local and military sources. The terrorists attacked the base in the remote town of Kareto in the Mobbar Local Government Area with improvised explosives and shot at it from different […]...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI (AA) – At least 12 security personnel and six militants were killed in a suicide bombing and ensuing clashes in northwestern Pakistan, the army said on Wednesday. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a security check post in the Mali Khan area of the Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province before […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven Pakistani policemen have been abducted while eight suspected militants and a soldier have been killed in hours-long clashes in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Suspected militants kidnapped seven policemen in Bannu district, near the restive North Waziristan tribal region tha...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven people, including two army personnel, were killed and three others injured in explosions in southwest Pakistan, the military said Thursday. Two army personnel, including a major, were killed when an improvised explosive device was detonated during a security operation in the Harnai district of sout...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani police on Tuesday said they arrested a policeman who was behind the deadliest attack on police in northwestern Peshawar city in 2023, in which over 100 people were killed and 250 others injured. Speaking to reporters in Peshawar, provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat Gandapur said police constable Muhammad Wali ...
ISLAMABAD / ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 26 people were killed and many others injured in a bomb explosion at Quetta city railway station in Pakistan’s Balochistan province early Saturday, police said. So far 26 people have died and 46 others are injured, Muhammad Akram, a local police official, told Anadolu over phone. Earlier, a [&he...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – At least seven loggers were killed and five others injured in Nigeria’s volatile northeast Borno State when their vehicle hit a landmine, a local official said. Bakura Abba, head of the local volunteer guard or the Civilian Joint Task Force, told he media that the incident occurred in a remote area […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has expressed “surprise” over the Chinese ambassador’s statement on security issues in the South Asian country. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the statement by Ambassador Jiang Zaidong “does not reflect Islamabad and Beijing diplomatic tradition.” “Islamabad is fully aware of Beijing’s co...
